Use Both Sides of Your Brain to Write Your Self-help Book
Article by Carmen Berry, Writing Coach/ Let?s Finish Your Book!
As an aspiring self-help book author, you want to write a book that actually helps people. You?ll need your creative powers to accomplish this goal. How is this done?
> Find Out Your Style of Creative PowerNot all creative people think alike, so you can?t use a ?one-size-fits-all? formula to maximize your creativity. But I?ve found it greatly beneficial to think of creativity as a function of your brain. One theory asserts that people usually rely more on one half of their brain than the other.
People who use the left side of their brain tend to be more logical, sequential, and scientific.
Right brain people, in contrast, rely more on their intuition, make associations based on their personal experiences, and are more subjective in their judgments
> Which Way is Better?The good news is that both left and right brained people can be highly creative. So it doesn?t matter which one you are. The bad news is that there are weaknesses that must be addressed by both left and right brain people.
> Plus and Minus of Left Brain CreativityIf you?re a logical person, you will have a much easier time creating an outline. You?re more comfortable when ideas fit into categories, with one idea logically progressing to the next.
The downside of left brain creativity is that life isn?t logical. It occurs on multiple levels at the same time. It can be a challenge for you to deal with the stress of opening your minds to new possibilities. This can be a serious liability since the essence of your self-help must be finding a new way of solving problems.
The challenge is to allow yourself to experience a certain amount of stress while you struggle with problems that are not tidy, or easily stuffed into neat categories. Reach into your right brain and let things be as messy as they are so that you can discover a new solution.
> Plus and Minus of Right Brain CreativityOn the other hand, if your creativity originates in the right side of your brain, you will have little trouble coming up with wonderful solutions to problems. You see connections between events and ideas and actions in a way that most left brain people don?t.
The challenge for you is to take all of this swirling mass of creativity and making a logical, step-by-step program out of it. Your readers won?t be helped by you simply doing a brain dump with your brilliant ideas all mashed up together. Your challenge is to reach into your left brain and get a concise and clear order to your book.
> Use Your Entire BrainBoth your logical and intuitive talents are needed to create a new solution and teach it to your readers. These two kinds of creativity give birth to your self-help book. Of course, we all use both sides of our brains. But most of us are not perfectly balanced in this regard. We tend to lean more on one side than the other.
Be mindful of which creativity style comes more naturally to you. You needn?t be surprised that you feel a bit uneasy when relying on the part of your brain that isn?t your primary mode of creativity. Lean on your strengths as well as your weaknesses and you?ll create a book that is sellable and helpful as well.
About the Author
Ready to finish your manuscript? I am a writing coach for people who want to write self-help books and memoirs. I base my coaching on being a NY Times bestselling author with 21 published books. I believe that you have a message no one else can deliver?one that is based in your life experiences. If you want to write a book that helps people, I want to help you write your book. For a free copy of my e-workbook, How to Make Your Hook Sizzle and Sell, please go to Free E-Workbook
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